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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) October 8, 1942.
(d) September 18, 1942.

2. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Norway.
(d) Canada.

3. When was Harry Gold born?
(a) May 22, 1915.
(b) December 11, 1910.
(c) July 7, 1917.
(d) March 29, 1908.

4. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) Scott Miller.
(b) John Wilson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Henry Stimson.

5. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?
(a) September 1, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) March 13, 1945.
(d) April 30, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?

2. How much money did Harry Gold hand over to David Greenglass for his information in 1945?

3. Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agree to combine their resources and work on atomic weapons in the United States?

4. Who was Semyon Semyonov's KGB colleague that helped work with him to throw off the scent of the FBI, according to the author in "Rapid Rupture"?

5. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?

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